I was surprised by the quality of Bob’s discussion of the portrayal of women in video games, if only because I haven’t generally been led to expect reasoned opinions about feminism from gamers or even gaming journalism. And while it’s true that this is a topic that has been discussed to death, Bob does make some novel points about the way body language is used in designing video game characters. As he says, the root problem isn’t putting sexy people in video games; the root problem is that male video game characters can be sexy and still have personalities, while sexy female video game characters’ personalities often don’t extend beyond “likes showing off her cleavage.”

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